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"It's Never Too Early": Preconception Care and Postgenomic Models of Life by Pentecost, Michelle, Meloni, Maurizio

“…In this article, we are concerned with the expanded public health interest in the "preconception period" as a window of opportunity for intervention to improve…”
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Early life and infant mental health: Reshaping assumptions in a southern field by Fiona Ross, Michelle Pentecost, Anusha Lachman

“…Mental health is a priority area for global health, with a particular focus on well-being in majority of the world countries. Attention to early life…”
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Navigating relationship dynamics, pregnancy and fatherhood in the Bukhali trial: a qualitative study with men in Soweto, South Africa by Draper, Catherine E, Motlhatlhedi, Molebogeng, Mabasa, Jackson, Headman, Tshepang, Klingberg, Sonja, Pentecost, Michelle, Lye, Stephen J, Norris, Shane A, Nyati, Lukhanyo H

“…South Africa has a complex range of historical, social, political, and economic factors that have shaped fatherhood. In the context of the Bukhali randomised…”
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The changing climates of global health by Cousins, Thomas, Pentecost, Michelle, Alvergne, Alexandra, Chandler, Clare, Chigudu, Simukai, Herrick, Clare, Kelly, Ann, Leonelli, Sabina, Lezaun, Javier, Lorimer, Jamie, Reubi, David, Sekalala, Sharifah

“…The end of global health? 'Global health' has been a contested project since its emergence as a framework and field of practice over 20 years ago.2 3 Variously…”
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Urban Health Research in Africa: Themes and Priority Research Questions by Oni, Tolu, Smit, Warren, Matzopoulos, Richard, Hunter Adams, Jo, Pentecost, Michelle, Rother, Hanna-Andrea, Albertyn, Zulfah, Behroozi, Farzaneh, Alaba, Olufunke, Kaba, Mamadou, van der Westhuizen, Claire, King, Maylene Shung, Levitt, Naomi S., Parnell, Susan, Lambert, Estelle V.

“…This commentary presents a conceptual framework, using a public health approach, for interdisciplinary research aimed at contributing to the understanding and…”
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The Politics of Trauma: Gender, Futurity, and Violence Prevention in South Africa by Pentecost, Michelle

“…In this article, I consider the framing of trauma as an epigenetic exposure that warrants intergenerational interventions. I draw on ethnographic research…”
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The First Thousand Days: Motherhood, Scientific Knowledge, and Local Histories by Pentecost, Michelle, Ross, Fiona

“…Since 2013, South African nutrition policy focuses on "the first thousand days," (conception to two years), informed by Developmental Origins of Health and…”
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Revisiting the margins by Michelle Pentecost

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‘The Good Doctor’: the Making and Unmaking of the Physician Self in Contemporary South Africa by Pentecost, Michelle, Cousins, Thomas

“…In this article we examine the figure of the doctor in animated debates around public sector medicine in contemporary South Africa. The loss of health…”
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Field notes in the clinic: on medicine, anthropology and pedagogy in South Africa by Pentecost, Michelle

“…This commentary is about medicine, anthropology and pedagogy: about the ways of knowing that different disciplinary orientations permit. I draw on a field note…”
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Strata of the Political: Epigenetic and Microbial Imaginaries in Post‐Apartheid Cape Town by Pentecost, Michelle, Cousins, Thomas

“…The epigenetic and microbiomic imaginaries that animate public health discourse on perinatal nutrition and the infant gut in South Africa offer a case study…”
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The Epigenetic Imperative: Responsibility for Early Intervention at the Time of Biological Plasticity by Pentecost, Michelle, Meloni, Maurizio

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Infant mental health in southern Africa: nurturing a field by Lachman, Anusha, Berg, Astrid, Ross, Fiona, Pentecost, Michelle

“…The promotion of early cognitive and emotional development is a core aim of the field of infant mental health (IMH). The programme, whose teaching staff…”
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Containment and conversion by COUSINS, THOMAS, PENTECOST, MICHELLE, VAN HELDEN, LESLEY

“…ABSTRACT In South Africa the racialized contours of economic life powerfully shape the distribution of who owns poultry enterprises, who is employed to labor…”
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The temporary as the future: Ready‐to‐use therapeutic food and nutraceuticals in South Africa by PENTECOST, MICHELLE, COUSINS, THOMAS

“…The reconfiguration of food as a pharmaceutical in biomedical regimes has been considered by scholars along two axes: (1) food supplementation as humanitarian…”
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Containment and conversion: Urban livelihoods and the circulation of value amid South Africa's avian influenza outbreak by Cousins, Thomas, Pentecost, Michelle, VAN Helden, Lesley

“…In South Africa the racialized contours of economic life powerfully shape the distribution of who owns poultry enterprises, who is employed to labor in them,…”
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Still Unknown and Overlooked? Anthropologies of Childhood and Infancy in Southern Africa, 1995-2020 by Ross, Fiona C., Pentecost, Michelle

“…In 1995, Pamela Reynolds published a stringent critique of the lack of attention to children in southern African Anthropology. 'Not known because not looked…”
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Critical orientations for humanising health sciences education in South Africa by Pentecost, Michelle, Gerber, Berna, Wainwright, Megan, Cousins, Thomas

“…In this article, the authors make a case for the 'humanisation' and 'decolonisation' of health sciences curricula in South Africa, using as a guiding…”
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The First Thousand Days : Global Health and the Politics of Potential in Khayelitsha, South Africa by Pentecost, Michelle

“…This thesis in anthropology examines the logics and implications of the first thousand days project, a global health focus on nutrition interventions in early…”
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